{"id":35810,"date":"2026-09-01T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35810"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:01:16","slug":"bear-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35810","title":{"rendered":"Bear and fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The spawning run of Kokanee salmon is rather small this year, as it often is every third year. Yet, if one watches with patience, one occasionally sees a foraging bear catch a fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A black bear hunts in the creek.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35817\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bear20260831as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike some times, this bear had its back turned when it dragged its fish from the stream.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35816\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bear20260831bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then carried the Kokanee off into the woods to eat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35815\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bear20260831cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even though the light was low, sometimes a good shot of eating emerged.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35814\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bear20260831ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And today, another good view of a captured Kokanee was obtained.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35813\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bear_fish260901s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The spawning run of Kokanee salmon is rather small this year, as it often is every third year. Yet, if one watches with patience, one occasionally sees a foraging bear catch a fish.\u00a0 A black bear hunts in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fish","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35822,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions\/35822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}